Poor babies. We've had 25 below ALL week. It hasn't been above zero since Monday and we aint' talking about wind chill, but the real deal. Just north of here actual temps have been 40 below. Makes for hard water. Ahh, for the good old days of global warming. A harbor tug poked a hole in its hull breaking ice for ships this week. Divers had to use a chain saw to cut a slab of ice out so they could go in yesterday and patch the hole. The last of the Mochicans are coming into port for winter layup today -- two final 1,000 footers are straggling in. The Coast Guard has an icebreaker out today banging a way through the ice so they can reach their winter berths. Hopefully, neither of them will poke a hole in its hull like one did last year and sat on the bottom for a couple of weeks. >From now until the end of March, there will be no more interlake travel on the upper Great Lakes. The locks at Ste. St. Marie closed for the season yesterday. David Sorenson Duluth, MN ************ On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:18:13 -0600 "Rich Gano" wrote: "Yo, Fred, we gonna have a 24F night tonight here in NWFL. brrrrr" ____________________________________________________________ Click to consolidate debt and lower month expenses. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/PnY6rw2PBHW8pOqcHRhgHagl88Uj1grZxb7JSbZ141DjJymmSlq96/